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An anatomical representation depicts the three-toed early horse Miohippus based on the fossil remains from the Miocene Epoch. Anatomical features show sequentially the outer form, musculature, and skeleton.

An anatomical representation depicts the three-toed early horse Miohippus based on the fossil remains from the Miocene Epoch. Anatomical features show sequentially the outer form, musculature, and skeleton.

All research and reconstruction for this illustration was completed by artist Jay H. Matternes. Skeletal proportions derived from a mount in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, probably mounted by C.H. Chubb and skeletal details from Osborn’s “Equidae of the Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene of North America”, Memoirs of American Museum of Natural History (n.s.), Volume II, Part I, May 1918.; Abbr=PUB

U.S. National Park Service

Project=Handbook; Reflective Art

Government owns art and all reproduction rights.

Public domain

Natural History, (HFC ArtTheme)
, Gouache on illustration board, (HFC ArtMedium)

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Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Code: AGFO

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Sioux County, Nebraska
Latitude: 42.421501159668, Longitude: -103.744003295898

Image Management System : IMS 10945

HFC Commissioned Art Collection

20190904

01/01/1979 - 12/30/1979

Image_Size=23-7/8" x17-1/2"; Count:3/3; Agate Fossil Beds National Monument handbook, pages 66-67

MC A4

Public Can View

Matternes, Jay

Organization: Harpers Ferry Center
Address: Harpers Ferry Center, 67 Mather Place, Harpers Ferry, WV, 25425, 304-535-5050

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